This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 383.

Hi, I'm Stephen M. R. Covey, the author of the New York Times and number one Wall Street

Journal bestselling book, The Speed of Trust, the one thing that changes everything. Shift your professional growth into high gear every time you listen to this. It's the

read-delead podcast with my friend Jeff Brown. Trust is the most overlooked, misunderstood, and underutilized

asset to enable performance. Its impact for good or bad is dramatic and pervasive. It's something

you can't escape. Thankfully, it's also the thing that can dramatically improve your personal

and professional success. Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and welcome to the Read to Lead podcast. This is

the podcast dedicated to your personal and professional success. Each and every week, you and I are

joined by a new author to talk about the key insights and main ideas from a book they've written.

It's sort of an audio cliff's notes, if you will, straight from the author themselves.

That author today is none other than Stephen M. R. Covey. He visited us last year to talk about his father,

Stephen R. Covey's 30th anniversary edition of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Stephen is here today to talk about his book, now in its 15th year and itself a classic,

called The Speed of Trust. I'm going to be asking Stephen to share about why the

inability to trust ourselves is often the source of our suspicion in others, some of the

common misconceptions when it comes to trust, the fact that while extending trust can be risky,

not extending trust, is often more so, and plenty more. If you're enjoying this episode on the day of its release or soon after, we are three weeks

away from the release of my first ever book written with Jesse Wisniewski called Read to Lead,

the Simple Habit that Expand Your Influence and Boosts Your Career.

Our guest today, in fact, has endorsed that very book along with folks like Dan Miller,

Michael Hyatt,

John Acuff, Seth Godin, Pamela Wilson, and many more.

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